Garment hanger



May 13, 1947.

C. H. NELSON 2,420,440 GARMENT HANGER Filed Sept. 4, 1945 Patented May 13, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HANGER Clifford H. Nelson, Tujunga, Calif.

Application September 4, 1945, Serial No. 614,382

1 Claim. 1

This invention is a device in a class of articles known as garment hangers.

It is an object of the invention to provide, in this class, a simple, practical, substantial, low costand highly effective instrument whereby to grapple inside of the ankle ends of a pair of trousers legs and expansively stretch and at the same time suspend the trousers by hooking them onto a conventional rod or other support.

A further object of the invention is to provide a trousers hanger which may be quickly and easily worked into position into the open ankle ends of the legs of the trousers by a sequeezing grip in one hand of the user, and will automatically expand to spread the engaged ends of the legs to match probable, previously made press lines along the fronts and back of the legs.

More particularly, an object of the invention is to provide a trousers hanger in which a pivotally connected pair of arms are automatically relatively expanded by and efiectively house or cover an expanding, resilient yoke, means being provided whereby to automatically limit the opening action of the arms as they swing apart about their pivot.

The invention consists in certain advancements in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure,

and having with the above, additional objects and advantages as will be made manifest in the following description of the article and its details of construction and the manner of its operation; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within the scope, spirit and principle of the invention as it is more particularly claimed hereinafter.

Fig. 11s a side elevation, partly in section, of the hanger; Fig. 2 is a sectional, plan of one arm; Fig. 3 is detail plan of the arm connection, and Fig. 4 is an end view of one cheek pair.

In the illustrated embodiment, substantially duplicate, right and left side, L-shaped arms 2 and 3 have their upwardly extending limbs 4 and 5 formed with interlapped yokes 6 and. l which are pierced by a transverse pivot 8 on which is mounted a suitable rod engaging hook 9 which extends up from the bearing yokes 6 and 1.

The L-shaped arms are, for about their full length, of channel shape in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 3 and the limbs 4 and 5 form a cover or housing for a substantial, inverted V- shaped spring l0 preferably including a crotch coil H confined between the inwardly converged 2 ends of the limbs 4 and 5. Normally the spring I0 expands the arms 2 and 3 to a full open position which is limited by an oblong hoop 12 embracing the lower ends of the limbs 4 and 5.

The laterally expanding, basal portions of the arms 2 and 3 each have at their outer end a pair of stiff and laterally spaced cheeks I3 and [4; the spacing of the cheeks of each pair being materially greater than the cross-section of the arms. This is for the purpose of permitting each cheek to be easily worked into the opening of one of the legs of the pants; the cheeks of the opposite ends of the hanger arms engaging in the folds of the opposite ends of the leg openings; as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 2.

During the insertion of the cheeks I3 and I4 into the leg folds the user of the hanger squeezes the limbs 4 and 5 to overcome the spreading efiect thereof by the housed spring I0, and as soon as the folds are properly grappled the limbs are released and the spring comes into function to force the notched outer edges of the cheeks into leg-fold stretching position in the leg ends.

What is claimed is:

A trouser hanger including a pair of L-shaped right and left side arms with upward extending limbs which converge and are joined by a transverse pivot and which limbs are of inturned, channel form, a spreader spring coil hung on said pivot and having tangential, opposite bars concealed in the upright channel limbs, and the arms including generally horizontal, oppositely extending limbs leading from the base ends of the upright limbs and having at their far ends down turned pairs of cheek parts to hook into the foot ends of a pair of trousers, and means to limit the expansion of the arms about the pivot.

CLIFFORD H. NELSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,212,024 Dahlgren Jan. 9, 1917 1,605,184 Heddens Nov. 2, 1926 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 13,223 Denmark Apr, 26, 1910 

